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A new networking tool called Relationship Science aims to help users connect with wealthy, powerful people, Greg Lindsay writes. The tool collects data from news reports and databases to compile profiles about influential people. The annual fee to access the network is $3,000.

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Professionals born in the early 1980s on average had held more than six jobs by the time they turned 27, according to an ongoing Labor Department study of 9,000 young people. Among high-school dropouts, two-thirds of jobs lasted less than a year, the study says.

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